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A Chinese city wedged between cliffs and a river

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If you ever wanted to live in a place where expanding your living room requires a stick of dynamite, this is it. Squeezed between a violently churning river and sheer cliffs, this settlement is absurdly narrow, proving that humans will build absolutely anywhere, no matter how terribly inconvenient.

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